Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Yes, they are better spent in adding new build systems. I stand in my opinion that the Qt3 and gtk frontends were murdered.
Murdered is a bit too strong here, I think. Several core developers decided they did not want to actively _support_ these frontends anymore. Then they starved to death from lack of interest. Some people liking qt3 is not enough - someone has to put in the work too. If anyone had stepped up and said "I will maintain qt3/gtk, implement every new dialog etc. in a timely manner" then these frontends would have lived. But no one did, so they died. At the time this was good - with people worrying about changing things in the GUI because they had the pressure of making the change in several frontends. Now there is only one frontend to worry about for developers, while anyone interested is welcome to play catch-up with the others. So far everybody thinks it is easier to go with qt4 (or loose LyX) than keeping another frontend going. Helge Hafting
